#8 – Demystifying Venture Capital, Private Equity and Start-up success

We demystify a whole lot in this episode of Tech DECIPHERED. We demystify Venture Capital and its nitty gritty decision-making processes and operating models. We demystify Private Equity vs Venture Capital and explain the differences between both. We discuss factors for Start-Up success and demystify entrepreneur “ageism”. Last but not least, we disagree … on the Tesla Cybertruck.

Navigation:

• The other side of the table – Entrepreneurs who become VCs (02:31)
• Decision-making and the operating model of Venture Capital (05:10)
• VCs have to make lot of decisions with incomplete information (08:23)
• Are VCs much less ambitious that PEs? (23:39)
• Key reasons why start-ups succeed (31:27)
• What successful second time founders do differently? (43:59)
• Are older entrepreneurs more successful than younger ones? (56:08)
• Tesla’s new Cyber-truck (59:28)

Resources:

• Andreas Goeldi, What I Didn’t Understand About VCs When I Still Was a Founder – https://bit.ly/3bbf4UU
• Auren Hoffman, Venture Capitalists are MUCH LESS ambitious than their private equity siblings – https://bit.ly/2V5itin
• Alex Ponomarev, The Five Reasons Why Startups Succeed, According to a Legendary Investor – https://bit.ly/34wQuLy
• Feliks Eyser, What Successful Second-Time Founders Do Differently – https://bit.ly/3b86aYn
• Mark Travers, For Entrepreneurs, 45 Is The New 25 – https://bit.ly/3a3ypWz
• MotorTrend, Tesla Cybertruck – https://bit.ly/2V6jSoY

Our co-hosts:

• Bertrand Schmitt, Tech Entrepreneur, co-founder and Chairman at App Annie, @bschmitt
• Nuno Goncalves Pedro, Investor, co-Founder and Managing Partner of Strive Capital, @ngpedro

Our show: Tech DECIPHERED brings you the Entrepreneur and Investor views on Big Tech, VC and Start-up news, opinion pieces and research. We decipher their meaning, and add inside knowledge and context. Being nerds, we also discuss the latest gadgets and pop culture news. 

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